Wednesday 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Brewing Better Decisions for a Dunkin Donuts Franchisee with Microsoft Fabric

Learn how Bluemont Group transformed Data & AI across 100 Dunkin’ locations by replacing a vendor-controlled data warehouse with a modern, fully owned Microsoft Fabric platform. Learn how Collectiv helped them eliminate multi-day data delays, unlock historical insights, and empower managers with real-time, location-level visibility.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C108-C109

Guardians of the lake: securing your data with OneLake

Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s new OneLake security empowers you to protect sensitive data at scale with role-based access, row and column security, and governance best practices—turning OneLake into your secure foundation for analytics.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B308-B309

CORENOTE: OneLake, the unified data lake for the era of AI

Microsoft OneLake eliminates data silos with a single intelligent storage system and provides a unified access point for all your data. This session will show you the latest capabilities coming to OneLake designed to help you unify data across clouds, secure, govern, and improve data discoverability in the OneLake catalog, and enable data sharing across domains—ensuring all data is AI-ready.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C208-C210

The instant insights pipeline: OneLake shortcuts + Dataverse + Power Apps

What if your business apps could power real-time analytics without complex ETL? In this session, we’ll look at how Power Apps and Dataverse connect directly to Microsoft Fabric using OneLake shortcuts, so your data is available almost in real time. You’ll learn how it works and the key tips to build solutions where everyday business actions turn into insights within seconds.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B401-B402

Open interoperability: integrating Azure Databricks and OneLake

Discover how Microsoft and Databricks are advancing open lakehouse architecture with interoperability between Azure Databricks and OneLake. Learn how shared data access, seamless integration, and new capabilities like mirroring, native reading, and future write support empower organizations to accelerate analytics, AI, and innovation without data duplication.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C302

Fabric Native MDM: AI and Analytics Ready Data in Minutes

Most Microsoft Fabric initiatives don’t fail because of dashboards or models, they stall when the underlying data isn’t trusted.

Join us for building a production-ready master data management (MDM) solution natively in Microsoft Fabric. From proof of concept to go-live, you’ll see the full MDM lifecycle in action.

We’ll model data domains, configure integrations, connect source systems, define matching rules, apply data quality policies, and activate stewardship workflows to stop issues before they spread. We’ll publish clean, trusted, gold-medallion master data to OneLake for immediate use in Power BI and other Fabric workloads.

You’ll leave knowing what “done right” looks like in Fabric, the key implementation decisions, and how to accelerate time to value with governed, trusted data.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B405-B406a

Enterprise security in OneLake: fine-grained access control with OneLake security

Deep dive into OneLake security including new features and how it fits in the overall Fabric security stack to get a comprehensive look at how OneLake is built to keep your data secure.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B405-B406a

Interoperable by design: managing Iceberg and Delta Tables in OneLake

OneLake enables true interoperability, enabling you to write Iceberg and Delta tables once and query them anywhere. Learn how OneLake supports data governance, Spark DML and lifecycle management while exposing the same tables to Snowflake, Athena, Glue, Fabric engines, Power BI, and AI Agents without copies.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C302

From Zero to Launch: Talcott’s New Retail Annuity Business platform powered by Microsoft Fabric

Join EY’s Global Fabric Tech Hub for a moderated fireside chat with Talcott on how they launched a new retail annuity business on Microsoft Fabric. We’ll unpack the end-to-end journey—why Fabric, how the architecture came together (OneLake, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Power BI), and the outcomes: accelerated market entry, automation driven efficiency, and real time decisioning. We’ll also discuss what’s repeatable for other enterprises and where to start, including Fabric IQ, governance, adoption, and how Real Time Intelligence fits.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C301

Trusted Contextual Data Foundation for reliable AI outcomes

Organizations struggle to trust their data - to contextualize and operationalize it safely for AI driven decision-making. As enterprises move beyond dashboards and reports towards agentic AI systems that reason, decide and act, the limitations of fragmented data platforms, inconsistent definitions and disconnected governance are impossible to ignore. Trusted context enabled by clean, governed and connected data is the critical ingredient in enterprise AI success.

This session highlights strategies for bringing multi-domain master data management, data quality, governance, privacy and policy enforcement, and end to end lineage to ensure that every dataset consumed by analytics, BI and AI agents is trusted, governed and ready for AI agents to reason with enterprise truth.

Friday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Innovation Theater

Building an AI-Ready Data Platform: Data Agents, Ontology, and Governance in Microsoft Fabric

AI agents and Copilots are only as effective as the data platforms behind them. Learn how to build an AI-ready Frontier Data Platform using Microsoft Fabric, powered by Data Agents, shared ontology, & governance. Learn how OneLake, semantic definitions, lineage, and policy-driven access enable safe AI at scale, & how Sonata’s Lightning Data Suite accelerates readiness with prebuilt accelerators.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C113-C114

A data lake built for scale: a deep dive into OneLake performance, APIs, and diagnostics

Join this session to learn how OneLake delivers a unified SaaS data lake for your Fabric tenant, simplifying governance and enabling AI-driven insight. With blob and ADLS-compatible APIs, OneLake integrates seamlessly with existing tools. Features like tiered storage, item-size reports and diagnostic logs simplify optimization, while auto-scaling ensures fast, reliable performance as demand grows.

Friday 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Linking Enterprise Data Estates to Fabric for OneLake & AI: A Real-World Case Study Featuring Fiserv

A key challenge in getting your data estate ready for using Fabric's unified capabilities is eliminating data silos and complexity. That requires implementing novel design patterns for connecting, capturing, transforming, and delivering data pipelines from existing applications and legacy platforms into Fabric for modernizing your data estate.

We will walk through the architecture used to capture and stream change data from production financial systems, apply transformations and validation in-flight, and deliver trusted, real-time data into Fabric to support operational analytics, AI workloads, and agent-based applications.